Recruit Night

**ChiefSmoke** · January 6, 2018

In the 21st century, how do you recruit guys to your football program?

We started recruit night at Mason County HS and have continued it here at Mercer County HS. One of the driving forces for me was my belief that if I could get the parents with my assistant coaches, they would want those men coaching their son.

We model this after how colleges will do recruiting weekends. We invite the families for a small meal of appetizers and we include 3 tickets to the basketball game that evening, which should be one of the best games of the season.

In early January, we send postcards to prospective 8th graders that will be freshmen in the upcoming season.

We will also have our coaches call to follow up and invite the kids and their families. Once we get them there, here is our itinerary:

Overall, this has been an effective way to get kids introduced to our program and get them going in HS football. We host it on a Friday Night and call it their first Friday Night of HS football.

If you have ideas to recruit kids to play HS football, please send me your ideas to david.buchanan@mercer.kyschools.us.

More photos at :

http://http://blackshoesandwhiteshoestrings.blogspot.com/2018/01/recruit-night-recruiting-football.html